6And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
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Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Here we find concerning Jehoshaphat, I. What a wise man he was. As soon as he came to the crown he strengthened himself against Israel , 2 Chron. 17:1. Ahab, an active warlike prince, had now been three years upon the throne of Israel, the vigour of his beginning falling in with the decay of Asa’s conclusion. It is probable that the kingdom of Israel had, of late, got ground of the kingdom of Juda…
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